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1 day ago · Lina Khan (born March 3, 1989, London, England) British -born American legal scholar who served as commissioner and chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 2021. Nominated by Pres. Joe Biden in March as one of five commissioners of the FTC, she was confirmed on June 15 by a Senate vote of 69–28.
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- Antitrust Scholarship
- Early Career and Education
Lina Khan is the current Chair of the
Nominated by President Joe Biden on March 22, 2021, she was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in on June 15, 2021. Prior to her current appointment at the FTC, Khan was an Associate Professor at Columbia Law School.
Khan heads the FTC’s mission to promote competition, and protect consumers, which includes regulating anti-competitive and
practices. She will also oversee the commission’s efforts to regulate corporate abuses and other behaviors that are deceptive or unfair to consumers.
She is best known for taking a strong stance on business practices by some of the country’s largest tech companies like Amazon (
), formerly Facebook, and Google (
Khan spent much of her early career researching and writing on market consolidation, at think tanks including The New America Foundation and The Open Markets Institute, and during her tenure at Columbia Law School.
In 2018, she served as a Legal Fellow at the FTC, in the office of Commissioner
, and in 2019 she served as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, conducting investigations on digital markets.
topics became part of the national conversation on regulating big tech for exploring how, among other things, access to competitor information can create conflicts of interest for tech platforms, and how their
can harm markets and consumers.
published in 2017 while she was a law student at Yale, won awards and national acclaim for its challenge to the concept that antitrust law should focus on consumer welfare, or companies’ ability to offer goods at competitive prices, arguing that this framework failed to fully capture how some forms of market dominance impact competition.
Khan holds an undergraduate degree from Williams College, and a law degree from Yale Law School.
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Jun 15, 2021 · Lina M. Khan was sworn in today as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission. President Biden named Khan, a Democrat, to a term on the Commission that expires September 25, 2024, and designated her as Chair. Khan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 15, 2021. “It is a tremendous honor to have been selected by President Biden to lead the ...
Jun 15, 2021 · Published June 15, 2021 Updated June 17, 2021. WASHINGTON — President Biden named Lina Khan, a prominent critic of Big Tech, as the chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, the White House ...
Jun 16, 2021 · By James Clayton,North America technology reporter. Reuters. On Tuesday, 32-year-old Lina Khan was sworn in as chair of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The role is a hugely powerful one ...
Speaker bio. Lina M. Khan was sworn in as chair of the Federal Trade Commission on June 15, 2021. Prior to becoming head of the FTC, Khan was an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She also previously served as counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law, legal ...
Nov 29, 2021 · By Sheelah Kolhatkar. November 29, 2021. An antitrust lawyer who studied the monopolistic power of Amazon and other large companies, Khan is now head of the F.T.C. Illustration by Ibrahim ...
